Seminars at MPIK

Welcome!

This independent research group was financed for 4 years by an
ERC Starting
Independent Researcher Grant, and since 2012 by the
MPG.
From September 2015 on it is supported within the
Heisenberg Programme
of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

ERC Grants

The ERC is the EU
funding body for science, and was launched in 2007.
ERC Grants aim to support single research
leaders ('Principal Investigators') heading a research team to
conduct a frontier research project.
Two kinds of grants are offered by the ERC,
Starting Independent Researcher Grants
for young investigators (3 to 8 years after obtaining the Ph.D.)
and
Advanced Investigators Grants
for established senior scientists.
The very first ERC
call for proposals focused on ERC Starting Grants and closed on
25 April 2007 with 9167 applications having been submitted, only roughly
300 of which were successful.

Heisenberg Programme

The Heisenberg Programme of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
provides outstanding researchers who fulfil the requirements for appointment
to a long-term professorship with the opportunity to work on an
advanced research topic.